Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-06-18

hanging hands rapfdiy.
A Chicago firm viii start a creamery at Te-
kamah in the near future.
Real estate transactions In Lincoln during
| May amounted to 81, 1890 o
A new hose company OF fifteen members
has been organized at Wayne.
The German language is to be taught in the
Nebraska City public schools.
Greeley county comes TO the front with an
oil well said to be a bonanza.
Fremont has a real estate boom. The trans
actions in two days were $4,000.
Nemaha City expects to be a freight divi-
sion station on the Santa Fe road.
Travelling men are booked for a picnic on
the Blue at Beatrice next Saturday.
A suit involving title to over 1900 acres
OF land Ia Wayne, Cedar, Knox and Pierce
counties is on trial.
Two freight trains, one Of seventy five and
the other Of eighty-Gye ears, pulled into Hast
ings a few days ago..
The Hastings Evening Democrat proposes
TO abandon Its Saturday afternoon edition
and issue a Sunday morning edition.
Work upon the Fremont stock yards and
packing houses, which has been delayed
waiting for competent men to survey and
plan them, is now going forward.
The prospects now are that Omaha and
Nebraska City will shake over the Missouri
Pacific by the lst of July. The early death OF
the ferry would not produce much heartache.
Anna Danielson, employed In the family OF
j. NJ. Gardner, of Edgar, gave birth to a child,
which she strangled and hid in a trunk. The
coroner rendered a verdict In accordance with
the facts.
Wild Curley, a Chadron notable, viii in a
few days start for Loudon TO join Buffalo
Bill. He has In his possession a fine lot oi
Indian trinkets and curios, and some fin,
mineral specimens.
The Ceresco Times says that among tn,
Improvements sure to he made there during
the summer is a : $4,000 school house, a new
church, furniture store, a shoe shop, a bank
and several residences.
John Frahin was found guilty Of grand lar
ceny at Wahoo and Judge Marshall sentenced
him to three years at hard labor In the PEN
Tertiary. John j. Kelly received a two years
sentence for burglary.
Gov. Thayer has received a check from ia,
national government for So, 0S6 and ha,
turned the same over to the state treasurer
This fund is the ) per cent allowed the state
on sales of government lands.
William Siedschlag, a well-to-do German
about fifty years old, suicided by hangin!
himself last week in a grove on his farm
six miles south Of Norfolk. Domestic diff
cui,.es are supposed to be the cause.
Sixty-three men engaged at work on Thu
Kansas City and Omaha railroad at Fairfield
struck for additional pay of twenty-five cents
per day. The road master declared his inten
ton of employing new men at once.
The live stock commission on Monda,
petitioned Gov. Thayer 10 issue a proclama
ton quarantining Colorado cattle in ~retalia
ton for the action OF the governor Of tina
state, quarantining against Nebraska cattle
The latest acquisitions TO the population q
Nebraska City, according to the News, are
"two exceedingly loud.mouthed and vulgal
women from the west, who attract q grea'
deal OF attention when they appear on tht
street."
A Creighton man got badly muddled Will
tanglefoot and made n sorry exhibition o.
himself, finally getting into a fight with an
other Individual. They were locked up foi
the night and In the morning fined 81 eac'
and costs.
A man named Williams, claiming to be g
member Of the Des Moines detective agency
was arrested at Hooper one day last week fol
obtaining Sl4 from citizens under false pre-
lenses. He was fined 500 and costs and com
mitted until paid.
The owl of York has entered into ? con
contract with the Strang company Of Omahs
for a system Of water works. The company
has secured a franchise for twenty-five years
Five miles of pipe will be laid and fifty by
drants put In, for which the city pays 5000
per anuum.
Burglars blew open the safe of Graft Il Kim,
mell's saloon at Seward Thursday night and
took 500 In cash. The safe of John thinner,
man was also broken into. The thieves
evidently were in a hurry as they left So
scattered on the floor. The week before the
same store was burglarized.
The a~rtesian well at Groton broke out
NCuHNSuhN uiGht WV bicNhS instant 'iohh Tue
Wells mouth, and is now flowing quite a
stream. The same cause which made the out.
break opened a seam or crack In the earth be.
tween the two points. A sixteen-foot pole
failed to reach bottom. The crack runs un-
der the Episcopal church ard may cause con-
siderable damage.
F.. II. Griffith, a carpenter who has been
employed by T. T. Patvin, OF Lincoln. for the
past three years, was arrested Monday on the
charge Of forging checks on that gentleman
to the amount Of S17i.25. Griffith confessed
his crime to Mr.. Patvin. He is a young mar
ried man and feels deeply grieved on the dis
grace brought upon himself and wife, who is
said to be an intelligent lady. He now Ian
guishes in all, awaiting preliminary examina-
ton.
Nebraska City has a sensational scandal.
Henry Pabep, charged by Elizabeth Felen
with being the father of her month-old child,
was before Judge Jones to-day, waived exam
ination and was bound over in the sum Of
500. He gave bail. The plaintiff alleges
that she accompanied Paben TO a country
dance, where he induced her 10 drink some
liquor which she has reason to believe was
drugged, and while under its influence he ac-